reg. 49922 et seq.)). such study shall include an analysis of- (a) the ability of providers of services and renal dialysis facilities to furnish specified oral drugs or arrange for the provision of such drugs; (b) the ability of providers of services and renal dialysis facilities to comply, if necessary, with applicable state laws (such as state pharmacy licensure requirements) in order to furnish specified oral drugs; (c) whether appropriate quality measures exist to safeguard care for medicare beneficiaries being furnished specified oral drugs by providers of services and renal dialysis facilities; and (d) other areas determined appropriate by the comptroller general. (2) specified oral drug defined. for purposes of paragraph (1), the term "specified oral drug" means a drug or biological for which there is no injectable equivalent (or other non-oral form of administration). (b) report. not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this act, the comptroller general of the united states shall su

reg. 40288). beginning on october 1, 2010, the secretary of health and human services shall implement the change specific to therapy furnished on a concurrent basis that is a component of rug-iv and changes to the lookback period to ensure that only those services furnished after admission to a skilled nursing facility are used as factors in determining a case mix classification under the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system under section 1888(e) of the social security act (42 u.s.c. 1395yy(e)). (b) construction.-nothing in this section shall be interpreted as delaying the implementation of version 3.0 of the minimum data sets (mds 3.0) beyond the planned implementation date of october 1, 2010. sec. 10326. pilot testing pay-for-performance programs for certain medicare providers. (a) in general.-not later than january 1, 2016, the secretary of health and human services (in this section referred to as the "secretary") shall, for each provider described in subsection (b), conduct a se

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reg. 43754), and any subsequent corrections. "(b) exception.-beginning on april 1, 2010, in determining the wage index applicable to hospitals that qualify for wage index reclassification, the secretary shall include the average hourly wage data of hospitals whose reclassification was extended pursuant to the amendment made by paragraph (1) only if including such data results in a higher applicable reclassified wage index. "(3) adjustment for certain hospitals in fiscal year 2010.- "(a) in general.-in the case of a subsection (d) hospital (as defined in subsection (d)(1)(b) of section 1886 of the social security act (42 u.s.c. 1395ww)) with respect to which- "(i) a reclassification of its wage index for purposes of such section was extended pursuant to the amendment made by paragraph (1); and "(ii) the wage index applicable for such hospital for the period beginning on october 1, 2009, and ending on march 31, 2010, was lower than for the period beginning on april 1, 2010, and ending on september 30, 2010, by reason of the application of paragra

reg reggie, pretty exciting finish for you.ou gather yourself for that huge slam that didn't go your way? >> it was a 50-50 call and i have to be a leader of this team and calm everybody down and we did what we need to do to get the win. >> jenn: you used the term you sometimes are a loose cannon. do you feel you did what you need to do. you sure had a great game out there? >> yes, ma'am. i feel we did what we had to do to get a "w" tonight. >> jenn: let me pull your teammate in, go ahead and celebrat celebrate. a little bit of slow start for you. what ended up working for you as this game went on. >> i had to go to the boards and everybody else opened up and i made shots down the stretch and we played as a team and won. >> jenn: how big was the rebounding for your team, especially early on when you weren't hitting any of your shots? >> rebound was huge. coming into the game they rebounded 11 boards. we knew we had to rebound very well and thought we did a good job of that. >> jenn: i know it's early, first game of december you

i don't care what kind of reg bill we pass, it's going to happen. and it just seems to me that the more you thrust yourself in the middle of those things that are outside of monetary policy, and outside of last resort, the more you do things that damage the institution. and i say that because i respect the institution, and just like judd gregg said, and just like i think i said in my comments, i don't want us involved in monetary policy. i think that would be a disaster not only for our country, but for every country that does business with us, which is every country. so i am just -- i'm becoming -- you know, i know you're lobbying us heavily. right now. as far as what the fed role should be in regulation. and on a private basis, i want to hear that. i mean, just a minute ago, i know that you alluded to chairman dodd's bill, and i have to tell you, and everyone on this staff knows this. i very much appreciate what he is doing to try to work out a bipartisan bill. and i think we're going to do that. or at least i'm going to keep saying i think we're

it was the gulf between rich and poor nations that was the topic tuesday as delegates talked about reg13-page document drafted by den denmark including language calling for mechanisms imposed by poor countries for delivering aid to them to help deal with the impact of climate change, including more oversight by donor nations than the developing nations want." david on the republicans line in phoenix,s arizona. caller: yeah, if you calculate the amount of carbon in the air, it's like 10 to 16th points and they're talking about releasing a billion or so pounds per day. it doesn't work out. you are not putting enough carbon in the air to affect the climate. host: our next caller we have annie who is austin, texas, on the democrats' line. hi, annie. caller: hi. i just wanted to say that a few days ago, there was a lady from idaho that called about how cold her summer and fall had been and that the crops were not growing. i know how cold your summers were up there. but apparently you don't know that we were the second hottest summer in our history in austin and san antonio. it broke every r

let me just start with the reg w issue.aul volcker recently has been quoted as saying that, you know, that banks have been engaged in risky behavior. we've had people in our offices saying that -- and if mr. volcker is listening, this is not me saying it, just repeating it, okay, that he's not really saying the way things are. let me put it that way. and yet we've looked back. you know, i know senator warner and i in particular have spent a lot of time on the resolution issue. and the problem that occurs with the resolution and what you were dealing with at the time a year ago was the fact that a commercial bank inside a highly complex bank holding company is very hard to sort of take out. and yet the 23 a and b regulations which basically say that a bank's deposit cannot be used -- the depositors money cannot be used to engage in affiliates which might pose risk, there's also been some statements made that maybe you loosen that activity over the last year or so, couple of years, and the fact is that bank deposits have been

military was severely degraded during the soviet occupation and the civil war that led to the taliban regreport that it was riddled with corruption and short of equipment and no one can argue with that. in september, the washington post published a confidential commander summary from general stanley mcchrystal that depicted broader problems. the general wrote that maligned actions of power brokers, widespread corruption and abuse of power by various officials as well as errors by international forces, despite all of those challenges, the united states and other countries are working to promote a stable and democratic afghanistan while preventing al qaeda and other terrorist from resuming operations in that country. from that perspective, training the afghan national security forces is the ball game. of the issr debate, the endgame must be issr creating self-sufficient afghan -- a self-sufficient afghan army that are free from corruption and able to provide security. from april 2002 to 2010, the -- as a point of reference, this effort is exceeded only by the theater why'd logistics support

let me just start with the reg w issue. paul volcker recently has been quoted as saying that, you know, that banks have been engaged in risky behavior. we've had people in our offices saying that -- and if mr. volcker is listening, this is not me saying it, just repeating it, okay, that he's not really saying the way things are. let me put it that way. and yet we've looked back. you know, i know senator warner and i in particular have spent a lot of time on the resolution issue. and the problem that occurs with the resolution and what you were dealing with at the time a year ago was the fact that a commercial bank inside a highly complex bank holding company is very hard to sort of take out. and yet the 23 a and b regulations which basically say that a bank's deposit cannot be used -- the depositors money cannot be used to engage in affiliates which might pose risk, there's also been some statements made that maybe you loosen that activity over the last year or so, couple of years, and the fact is that bank deposits have be

to provide product or market reg lace and we've been bork wek working with the sec to strengthen that shape yet this last year or two we've had a record number of bank failures in a short period of time. >> right. i don't know that i said -- >> how many mo failures do you anticipate over the next year or two years? >> i think most banks continue to be profitable, and, but there are clearly some under disstre and we do not publicly release or famed bank projections but it will go up and we think it will peak next year. >> your comment earlier also with regards to a lot of small banks have be to absorb some of these, they're a part of the ripple effect of some of the big guys here and are certainly under stress at this point. do you have any plans for forbearance for those folks to allow them to be able to withstand this and to outlive some of these problems that they're not going to be closed as a result of some of the actions of some of the big guys and while we had forbearance with the big foiks and helped them we don't have t.a.r.p. funds available for the small guys and forbearance

and the interesting news about the reg that will be coming out on conflicts of interest is also interesting. >> was that a big change? >> people had suspected that he had said things in the past of trying to tighten the interest rules, but he's not been this specific and not given a timetable for that. >> dan. >> the next batch of cells that are disease specific where they have genes for individual diseases some rare ones and some popular diseases. and the other thing that he lost 25 pounds, i thought that was news. i have to hand it to an n.i.h. director, they usually pack on the pounds. he had good answers for the job and in the genome race he should be an interesting director. >> of the $30 billion and the money qpvthat he controls what does n.i.h. follow with this? >> n.i.h. has the control of treatments, and one thing i didn't ask, he's got such a background in genetic-based research yet disease is not just caused by genes but other factors. and i would like to ask if there is a sliding of research of the environmental factors into disease, because of his personal-based research. >> we

>> the financial regs have not moved. and at the end i think bill at the end there, well, if the jobs come maybe the healthcare will come. so i think they view the sequencing differently than the administration has focused. of course, stimulus first but there has not been a real sustained effort to keep high up in the minds of voters whatever they are doing on the economy. >> this was pretty much a 50/50 audience, democrat and republican, but i was still struck how likeable obama was even among his opponents. he was large political element of ronald reagan in the '80s. we have a long way to go in this presidency. >> boy, is pelosi the shield. she's catching all the darts and bullets. half of them didn't even know who reid was. >> i think congress -- pelosi and congress in general, i have to go back to that because everyone -- everyone has some amount of anger and they look at obama and they say, i'm not going to place my anger here for some reason and it's just shifted to pelosi and congress. >> good. charlie, what are yo

to provide product or market reg lace and we've been bork wek working with the sec to strengthen thatnd are generally supportive of that. >> you mentioned our banks are in great shape yet this last year or two we've had a record number of bank failures in a short period of time. >> right. i don't know that i said -- >> how many mo failures do you anticipate over the next year or two years? >> i think most banks continue to be profitable, and, but there are clearly some under disstre and we do not publicly release or famed bank projections but it will go up and we think it will peak next year. >> your comment earlier also with regards to a lot of small banks have be to absorb some of these, they're a part of the ripple effect of some of the big guys here and are certainly under stress at this point. do you have any plans for forbearance for those folks to allow them to be able to withstand this and to outlive some of these problems that they're not going to be closed as a result of some of the actions of some of the big guys and while we had forbearance with the big foiks and helped th

to provide product or market reg lace and we've been bork wek working with the sec to strengthen thatportive of that. >> you mentioned our banks are in great shape yet this last year or two we've had a record number of bank failures in a short period of time. >> right. i don't know that i said -- >> how many mo failures do you anticipate over the next year or two years? >> i think most banks continue to be profitable, and, but there are clearly some under disstre and we do not publicly release or famed bank projections but it will go up and we think it will peak next year. >> your comment earlier also with regards to a lot of small banks have be to absorb some of these, they're a part of the ripple effect of some of the big guys here and are certainly under stress at this point. do you have any plans for forbearance for those folks to allow them to be able to withstand this and to outlive some of these problems that they're not going to be closed as a result of some of the actions of some of the big guys and while we had forbearance with the big foiks and helped them we don't have t.a

laws that actually provide guidance for the majority of the work force and not just try to write the reg to ensure that that one individual who was going to push the limit would be protected. that is going to end up in litigation. let's worry about that 80% of people who just want to know what their rights are. the other thing is, flexibility -- there are a lot of jobs where you actually have to be present. you cannot open this door remotely. how do we balance that? >> one of the things that is so challenging, we have to recognize that professional workers have a tremendous amount more flexibility in our society and our low-wage workers. the same can be said of paid maternity leave. we have a ways to go on paid parental leave, particularly for fathers. in a large part, our workers have had wonderful opportunities when we have had children or elder care needs. i think we need to really stress and focus on that we are not just talking about workplace flexibility to help us on this panel do a better job of making this work, but highlight the workplaces who are doing a good job for their low

and i know that -- i know that this committee is going to going to through some reg reform that may clip back some of the responsibilities of the fed. and would i ask him, assume he is listening to this, my guess is he is, does he need to quit trying to expand the empire of the fed, absolutely. but i do think based on where we are today with the balance sheet issues, with what has been learned through this last crisis, i do think he is he is in a good position to make prudent decisions for our country as we move ahead, i do, i plan to vote for him and, mr. chairman, i thank you for the time. >> i thank the senator very much. senator mendez? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, let me thank you for your leadership of the committee during -- throughout this year but particularly in this confirmation process. i think everybody's had the opportunity to make their views very well known in an unfettered way and that process should be reassuring to the american people so i thank you for your leadership. let me also say i don't envy chairman bernanke's difficult position. he's served in wha

it is disappointing that the reg haters didn't champ down on that, so what i think we should do is approach this but not compromise our principles. one of our principles ought to be that the government doesn't pick winners an losers, that when someone takes risks and fail they lose the money, not the taxpayers. another principle we should have i think that's the responsibility of every american. we teach that to our children. we should not treat adults like children when they are overleveraged. we should not treat wall street firms when they take outsized are risk make tremendous profits when they then fail to bail them out. that is wrong, and you're going to always have a division in this country. if there's some people, that want to establish a bailout in the regime, a permanent bailout is that already for the government to bail these companies out. there is going to be a lot of anger, and there is going to be a lot of disagreement, as long as people want to push legislation like this. glenn: there guest: there is concern about understand of the year bonuses about to be given out to wall

and i know that -- i know that this committee is going to going to through some reg reform that may clipback some of the responsibilities of the fed. and would i ask him, assume he is listening to this, my guess is he is, does he need to quit trying to expand the empire of the fed, absolutely. but i do think based on where we are today with the balance sheet issues, with what has been learned through this last crisis, i do think he is he is in a good position to make prudent decisions for our country as we move ahead, i do, i plan to vote for him and, mr. chairman, i thank you for the time. >> i thank the senator very much. senator mendez? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, let me thank you for your leadership of the committee during -- throughout this year but particularly in this confirmation process. i think everybody's had the opportunity to make their views very well known in an unfettered way and that process should be reassuring to the american people so i thank you for your leadership. let me also say i don't envy chairman bernanke's difficult position. he's served in what

and i know that -- i know that this committee is going to going to through some reg reform that may clipthe responsibilities of the fed. and would i ask him, assume he is listening to this, my guess is he is, does he need to quit trying to expand the empire of the fed, absolutely. but i do think based on where we are today with the balance sheet issues, with what has been learned through this last crisis, i do think he is he is in a good position to make prudent decisions for our country as we move ahead, i do, i plan to vote for him and, mr. chairman, i thank you for the time. >> i thank the senator very much. senator mendez? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, let me thank you for your leadership of the committee during -- throughout this year but particularly in this confirmation process. i think everybody's had the opportunity to make their views very well known in an unfettered way and that process should be reassuring to the american people so i thank you for your leadership. let me also say i don't envy chairman bernanke's difficult position. he's served in what can only be